This film explores European life from 1200 to 1500, highlighting the significance of art in documenting this era. It discusses the three main institutions of medieval Europe: the Church, the ...

Until now, historians placed the invention of the bra with either French corset-maker Herminie Cadolle in the late 1700s, ... There were some medieval texts that referred to bra-like garments ...

The iconic image of a witch on a broomstick has apocryphal origins. But whether they could actually fly didn’t stop Christian society from persecuting them.

In my work as a scholar of medieval European history, I have researched texts describing witchcraft in the early 1400s. Some texts fully accepted the idea that witches flew, often on brooms or staffs.